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AssigneeConopco, Inc.
InventorsSlavica Cesare, Lauren Alicia Ugliuzza, Graham Keith Lacy, Jonathan Edward Mason, Gregory Lalier
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A discrete product refill container and a rigid outer shell container. The refill container includes a product chamber and a fitment secured thereto. The fitment includes a ledge which is suitable for resting on a ledge of the rigid outer shell container while permitting the product chamber to pass into the shell interiorly to the ledge. It may also include a rim for grasping by transfer equipment. The fitment includes a destructive cover, i.e., one which cannot readily be re-closed, so that the consumer can easily make the product within the refill available for pumping, as desired. The rigid outer shell container can be snap fit closed. The refill bottle may be a pouch or a thin walled bottle, with a fitment. The fitment may serve to support the bottle in an inverted position for display or storage. The refill bottle may also include an integral ledge for support in the rigid outer shell container, instead of a discrete fitment. A modular fitment may be used which accommodates different types of closures, if desired.
A refill container having a product chamber and a discrete fitment attached thereto, the fitment having a resting surface, the fitment being adapted to be used with a variety of outer package shells having a support surface on which the fitment resting surface can be supported whereby the refill container can be utilized for different brands or product concepts, the fitment including a centrally disposed cylindrical opening defined by a cylindrical wall which extends above a platform and including one or more recesses on the fitment cylindrical wall above the platform to assist in snapping the fitment on to a neck of the product chamber, the fitment having front, rear and side walls extending above the platform wherein the walls afford a surface on which the fitment can be supported.
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